In the November 22 issue, Sanford Schwartz writes, “Something like a romance with European life and culture seems to be at the center of the art of Timothy and Stephen Quay, currently the subject of an overdue retrospective at MoMA.”

In the November 22 issue, Julian Bell writes, “This exhibition is not only compendious, bringing together almost every major innovative painting of mid-nineteenth-century Britain along with work in a host of other media. It is provocative.”

Is photography a way of documenting the world that has an inherent “truth-claim” on the real? Or is it, as the photographer Edward Steichen suggested, essentially graphic, a technique for creating a certain kind of image?